Timing Out / Logging Out

[journeybear]

Minor issue: I get logged out after a relatively short time - haven't timed it but it seems like an hour and a half or two - and then have to log in again. While I'm online I usually am looking at a few sites simultaneously, especially when one of those sites is the Café, as I'll often read something that I just have to go and find out more about. Sometimes this takes a while, and by the time I get back I've been timed out and have to log in again. This is so insignificant I feel silly asking about it, but I wonder if there is some way to adjust this, or do I just have to grin and bear it? I can do that, I just am always looking for ways to optimize my experience.

[JEStanek]

This is a local (your PC) issue, not a board setting. Are you logging on from home or a public place like a library? Have you clicked the remember me button (don't do that at a library - which should clear the cookies upon exit or on a frequency). Check your spyware/internet security settings. What browser software and security software (Symantec, Norton, etc) are you using?

Jamie

[journeybear]

OK, well, I assumed it was a board issue because it doesn't happen to me at other sites. Of course, you know what happens when you assume ... Actually, I don't, I assumed that was a rhetorical question. Well, you know what happens when you assume ... OK, no more coffee for a while!

Ahem. I am using my home computer, and never click the "remember me" button - just a habit from years of using library computers. I remember seeing that only when I log in to email, which shouldn't affect this - am I missing something? I've got McAfee and Spyware Terminator.

I'm going to log off my computer and log back on and see if I get that prompt.

Thanks!

[journeybear]

Oh, THAT prompt ... D'oh!

Thanks. If that doesn't solve it I'll let you know.

D'oh!

[journeybear]

Yep - that was it. Thanks!